TRIFIDAi. 1 1 



crescents, the points of which run ont upon the nervnres i]i 

 minute black dots and streaks, through a broad stripe of the 

 pale ground colour ; that portion of the latter edging the 

 large curve toward the dorsal margin forming a sharply 

 marked white crescent above the anal angle ; subterminal 

 line ill-defined, dusky white, repeatedly angled, and edged 

 inwardly by light brown clouds, outwardly by a dark brown 

 band ; orbicular and reniform stigmata both small, and both 

 somewhat rounded, of the pale ground colour, ringed with 

 black ; claviform stigma a mere black loop ; the space between 

 the first and second lines, around the stigmata, forms a 

 broad central band of black-brown, red-brown, or grey-brown, 

 marbled above the middle with jjaler. but below having 

 usually a black horizontal bar, or a squared dark-brown or 

 black blotch ; on the costa toward the apex are three white 

 dots in a brown cloud ; extreme hind margin edged with 

 black lunules ; cilia pale brown, intersected with darker brown, 

 and dashed with dusky-white. Hind wings smoky-brown, 

 slightly paler at the base ; nervures a little darker ; cilia 

 white, clouded with brown. Female quite similar, hardly 

 smaller, abdomen stouter. 



Underside pale smoky-grey ; nervures rather darker ; 

 beyond the middle is a darker transverse stripe, and near the 

 hind margin another. Hind wings whiter, with two narrow 

 curved transverse stripes beyond the middle. Body, legs, 

 and leg-tufts whitish-brown ; tibi^ dark brown. 



Exceedingly variable, the more typical form here described 

 varies in the ground colour from greyish-white through 

 various shades of grey, grey-brown, whitish-brown, and pale 

 reddish-brown, even pale olive-brown or tinted with fulvous, 

 and has the described markings in various dark shades, 

 varying with the ground colour, or becoming at times even 

 dark purple-red. In other cases the ground colour assumes 

 dark brown and dark red-brown shades, the white wholly 

 obliterated, or the white crescent above the anal angle alone 

 remaining ; and the wings are then marbled with more mono- 



